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copied mans invitation to sleep at
his house. The place proved to be a
dark, damp single room on the ground
floor. Naples has lofty houses that
darken the narrow streets, and rents
are higher the higher you climb, story
above story, to the sunshine. This
man couldn't afford to take any but a
room on the lower floor. Here all the
family lived-man and wife and several
children, one young woman of six
teen or eighteen but it made no differ
ence-there, or anywhere else on the
European continent, all undressed and
went to bed as unconcernedly as if each
were in a separate room. The beds,
rolled up in the daytime, were unrolled
at night and filed the room" For din
ner they had jolly meal, reinforced
by two pounds extra of macaroni
bought for the occasion by the stranger.
found, are greatly honored in Italy, as
indeed they are in many other Euro
pean countries. He says of Naples
"What most strikes stranger is the
crowded condition of the masses. A
whole family, consisting of parents
and sometimes five to ten children, live
in one room. A marvellous degree of
economy is practiced even in the small
est details. Coffee-grounds from the
wealthy mans kitchen are dried and
resold to the poor. In a similar way
oil is twice and sometimes three times
used, the drippings after each success
sive frying being gathered from the pan
and sold to the poor. Old shoes, hats,
clothes, candle-ends, dried coffee
grounds, " secondhand " oil, and a
hundred other articles are spread out
upon the broad plaza Cor square) of a
town-and it is here to a great extent
that the Italian workman procuers his
supplies. A laborer's suit, consisting
of breeches, jacket, vest, shirt, socks,
necktie and shoes, cost anywhere from
S4.45 up. His food is as simple as his
clothing and his habitation. In the
morning a great loaf of black bread is
passed around each member of the
family gouges out piece of the inside,
until finally only the hard crust is left.
AT noon the crust is eaten, softened by
little wine. A plate of macaroni,
costing two or three cents, finishes up
the bill of fare. AT night more mac
aroni, then the beds or pallets are
spread and the family goes to sleep, to
get up and go through the same routine
on the morrow. The rent of one of
these rooms is from SO to S12 per
year the cost of the macaropi, wine
and bread is about ten cents per day
for each person, but even at this cheap
rate of living the workman who has a
a family often finds it difficult to make
both ends meet A skilled bricklayer
averages only two and one-half lire
(ffty cents) a day"
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A Bad Habit.

" Did you ever hear of the litigation
habt?" asked lawyer, the other day,
in the course of leisure chat across a
Aforementioned ofiice-table. "Well,
there is such a thing, and it gets Just
as strong a hold upon men as the
whiskey habit, the opium habit and the
half dozen others that are pitfalls for
the weak-minded. A man, for instance,
has good grounds for suit at law, and
he places the case in the hands of
lawyer. There are many delays, of
course-that goes without saying-and
in the meantime he visits his lawyer
day after day, has long consultations
with him, and hears a good deal about
legal processes and legal technicalities.
Finally the case comes to trial and is
decided against him. Does that finish
him? BY no means. He directs his
lawyer to appeal to the supreme court,
and there is perhaps another year OF
delay, during which period your client
visits you even more frequently than
before. He has got so in the habit of
consulting you, discussing points with
you and talking business generally
that, when at length the supreme court
ucCluco III Ills ldNOT anu Ills CdSc Is Ouu
of the way-off your hands and his
why, he is absolutely lost. He has
nothing to run to his lawyer about,
nothing of vital interest to discuss,
nothing to give him an excuse for lay
ing bare to an attentive and secretive
ear the secrets of his business enter
prises. And the consequence is that
he snaps at the first opportunity he has
of bringing another suit. He has ac-
quired the litigation habit, and has be-
come a slave to it. Any judge or court
clerk will tell you that the same names APP
pear on the trial lists month after month
and year after year. While some peo-
pie never think of resorting to law
there are others who, having acquired
this habit, fly to the courts on the
slightest provocation." y Philadelphia
D,,JJof;,,
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Church MOOrings.

An old sea-captain was riding in the
cars, and young man sat down by his
side. He said: Young man, where
are you going?" I" 1 am going to Phil
adelphia to live" Have you any let
tiers of introduction?" yes" said
the young man, and he pulled some of
them out. :" WE'LL" said the old sea-
captain, have you church certifi-
cate?" 60 yes,' said the young man;
81 did not suppose you desired to look
at that" " Yes" said the sea-captain,
4" l want to look at that. As soon as
you reach Philadelphia present that to
some Christian church. l am an old
sailor, and have been up and down in
the world, and it is my rule, as soon as
l get into port, to fasten my ship fore
and aft to the wharf, although it may
cost little wharfage, rather than have
my ship out in the stream, floating
hither and thither with the tide. -
LeoreS Of Light
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Exit from Church.

Some years ago, when | was young
man, my pastor, Dr. John Krebs, gave
the congregation a lecture on certain
infelicities of department, The heather
of old, he said, had custom designated
by the word ertemplo, the custom of
hasty exit from the temple at the close
of service. This custom, with the
modification of peering about for hats
and putting on gloves during the doX-
ology and benediction, had somehow
found its way in old Rutgers street,
and he emphasized the propriety of re-
form. But when at the close of the
service the congregation rose for the
benediction, conspicuous member
yielding to habit, left his pew, crossed
the isle to bench where his hat and
cloak awaited him, and as time is money,
and economy virtue, proceeded to
utilize the time of the benediction in
investing him in his cloak. Instead
however, of proceeding with the bene-
diction DIR. Krebs waited, and the
whole congregation waited, till the
gentleman reappeared in his pew, hat
in hand, wrapped in cloak, and ready
for the eTtemplo the instant the amen
escaped the PASTORS lips. But the per-
Torrance of the conspicuous member
was not repeated. Now in several of
the churches where we have worshiped
in our absence we have been disturbed
by the ante-benediction preparations
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
RULED BY PREJUDICE.


Few persons realize how thoroughly
they are controlled by prejudice even to
their own disadvantage. For many years
the treatment of rheumatism, neuralgia,
sciatica and headache has been by some
outward application, and, therefore, with
out stopping to think that the origin Of
these troubles must, from necessity, be in
ternal, the weary sufferer continues to rub,
rub and find no relief Athlophoros is taken
internally, and as proof that this is the
correct principle, it cures surely and quick
ly. he statement of those who haze been
cured ought to convince the incredulous.
Manchester, n. H., March Is, 1886.
On the 18th of August, 1885, ] suffered
very badly from an attack of rheumatism
and was recommended to try Athlophoros.
On taking one-half a bottle my rheumatism
left me and | have not suffered any from
it since. Would recommend this medicine
to all suffering with rheumatism.
FRANK +. PUTNEY, 300 Walnut St.
Lowell, Mass, March 10, 1886
A man suffering with sciatic rheumatism
is liable to do most anything to rid him
self of that complaint. BY exposure, con-
tractcd the disease, and although being doc
tored, grew worse in spite OF all that could
apparently be done to relieve intense pain.
| was obliged to stand while eating, and
unless completely exhausted ! was unable
to get any sleep; at times | would have to
get ont of bed in the dead of night, go into
the street and tire myself out by walking
to get sleep. Still the pain and its cause
hung to me. | commenced to use Athlo-
phoros. After few doses there was change
for the better, and in good time came the
cure so much hoped for and found at last
only in Athlophoros. c. p. JORDAN.
Every druggist should keep Athlophoros
and Athlophoros Pills, but where they can
not be bought Of the druggist the Athlo-
phoros Co., ~ Wall St.. New York, will
send either Carriage paid on receipt of
regular price, which is S1.00 per bottle
for Athlophoros and SOC. for Pills,
For liver and kidney diseases, dyspepsia, in
digestion, weakness, nervous debility, diseases
of women, constipation, headache, impure
blood &c, Athlophoros Pills are unequaled.
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The Theory of Earthquakes.

John S. Newberry, professor of geol-
ogy and pathology at Columbia College,
and the greatest living authority on
earthquakes on the North American
continent, says, in reference to the
Long Island earthquake: Z" Earthquakes
are not nearly as uncommon as people
seem to think; they occur constantly.
But only recently has any full record of
them been kept. To show you how
common they are / need only say that
we have records of two hundred thirty
one earthquakes in the New England
States between 1888 and 1879. Prob
ably the full number of earthquakes in
this territory during this period was ten
times the number given. formulated
my theory in little pamphlet after the
Charleston CONFUSION. Here it is
stated: An earthquake is a movement
caused by shrinking, from the loss of
heat, OF the heated interior of the earth :,
and the crushing together and dis
placement of the rigid exterior as it
accommodates itself to this contraction.
The broken and folded qualification of
mountains shows that this theory is
correct. Now the Riviera is strip of
oo'po"Iu running diouS lHc ihdiiiiiiic
Alps. The earthquake there was caused
by this tension and contraction in the
strata of these mountains. Our sea-
coast is skirted by the Allegheny chain
and earthquakes take place along the
range nearly every year. 1t is impossi-
bic to say whether there will be recur-
renee of the shocks along Long Island,
but it is quite probable that they will
recur. Just when, is something with
out the scope of scientific conjecture.
An effort has been made to establish
the rule of periodicity as applying to
seismic disturbances, but the recorded
data upon which to base it are as yet
too imperfect"
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for the eTtemplo. 1t was curious to see
the haste with which the hymn-books
were shot into the book-rack before the
last line of the hymn was sung, show
ing that the thought of the wor-
shiper(O was much more intent on
having the way well cleared for exit
than upon the sentiment of the hymn.
And then such mingling of the notes
of the grand old doxology with the
rustic of movements for hat and UNI
brella, and the ondrawing of over
coats.-W. y. Breed, in Evangelist.
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M(oral ann Religious.
The Reaper and the Flowers.

There is Reaper whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath
And the flowers that grow between
" Shall have naught that is fair2' said he
" Have naught but the bearded grain?
Though the breath of these flowers is sweet 10 me
will give them all back again"
lie gazed at the flowers with fearful eyes,
He kissed their dropping leaves;
II was for the Lord of Paradise
lie bound them in his sheaves.
MY Lord has need of these howerets CAV"
The Reaper said, and smiled;
Dear tokens of the earth are they,
Where he was once n child.
They shall all bloom In fields of light,
Transplanted by my care,
And saints, upon their garments white,
These sacred blossoms wear"
And the mother gave, In tears and pain,
The flowers she most did love;
She knew she should find them all again
In the fields of light above.
q not In cruelty not in wrath,
The Reaper came that day;
Twas an angel visited the green earth
And took tire flowers away. -LoRafelloc.
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The FOOtpath.

out at the doorway with shrill delight
Ringing, clear of alloy,
After butterfly flashing so white,
As 1t wheels and floats In the soft sunlight
He darts, o adventurous JOY!
Always! the fields waving, the wheat
Stands proudly over the path
The path winds onward, winning his feet
Through avenues arched and shady and sweet
Sweet vista that childhood hath.
But stay; the butterfly has uptown
High in the stainless blue
Under the shadowing wheat alone
lie stands and wonders, still as a stone,
For all the world is new.
He sees each beautiful stem, blue-greeu,
Standing alone in its grace,
Great pendulous peoples atame between,
And little convolvulus climbing to screen
That dim forest world from his face
He sees overhead, as they dance to its tune,
The ears flash white in the wind,
But that musical laugh before mid-noon
Ripples far and faint in the heat and soon
Leaves silence only behind
And the silence falls on his fresh young soul,
Like the far sound of the sea,
Infinite, solemn; its strange control
Possesses him quite; quick fances roll
Through his BRAIN half fearfully
He looks; and the long path seems to strain
His tremul Gus lips apart
Some sudden trouble his eyes sustain,
For so the folded blossom of pain
Has broke in his childish heart
What is it?-some swift iutuitive glance,
Half-shapen only in thought.
OF stranger worlds, of wide mischance2
Some intimate sense of severance
OR loss?-I know not what.
He turns and leaps, for his mothers arms
ont of the doorway lean:
She folds him safely from all alarms,
And rallies his courage with rhythmical charms
Yet knows not what he has seen.-C. T.. W0Hri,
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The Poor I'm Italy.

From a" Tramp Trip" in Europe we
copy as follows: g AT Naples our trav-
eler, in his workman's blouse, and
armed with a slight knowledge of the
Italian tongue, fraternized with the
first set of workmen he found, and ac-
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LOST AND FoUND.-A rich reward
awaits the man that presents better
thing than the Hop Plaster for all pain
and soreness. Acts instantly when APP
piled to backache, rheumatism, sciatica,
kidney affections, sideache, stitch,
crick, sore lungs or severe aches in any
part. Twenty-Five cents.
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a MAN who has practiced medicine for
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A MAN who has practiced medicine for
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TOLEDO, o., January 10, 1887.
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IHAvE read in Plato and Cicero say
ings that are very wise and very beauti
full; but | never read in either " Come
unto me, all We that labor and are heavy
laden. St. Augustine.
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The inhnity of God is not mys-
terious; it is only unfathomable-no
concealed, but incomprehensible. 1t is
clear infinity-the darkness of the
pure, unsearchable sea.-John RuSkin.
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BoILs, pimples, hives, ringworm,
letter and all other manifestations of
impure blood are cured by Hoods
Sarsaparilla.
, 1887-09-07
Affairs in Honolulu.

SAN Francisco, Sept. G.-The steam
ship Australia arrived from Honolulu
this afternoon, leaving there on Aug. 80.
The political situation on the island re
mains unchanged. Active preparations
are going forward for the election, which
occurs on Sept. II. The complete sue
cess of the new constitutional party is de
clared to be assured. A proposition will
be laid before the mex legislature for the
construction of an ocean cable connecting
the Hawaiian group Of islands. Business
is reported very dull in Honolulu, but a
revival of increased business is anticipated
after the coming election.
The Honolulu Daily Bulletin. in COM
menting upon the political canvass, says:
There never was a time In the country's
bri f history when respectable citizens are
less free to express their Independent
thoughts than at the present time. If a
mar dares to utter a moderate opinion or
an opinion in any way adverse to the ex-
IRENE notions of the narrow faction,
which is guided more by blind impulse
than calculating reason, he is at once re-
ported" The party intimates that the
present power proposes to control affairs
on the island at any cost.
, 1887-09-07
After an INDIAN.

BUTTE, Sept. Ga special to the
Miner from Calgary, Northwest Terri.
tory, says; Trouble is feared among the
Blackfoot Indians About ten days ago an
Indian was shot at by a white soldier for
some trifling cause and seriously hurt
His tribe were much incensed and at one
time it was thought they would attack the
assailant. After a few days the wounded
Indian died and the news was sent
through all the tribes. simultaneously
with this another Indian named Deerfoot
escaped from Jail here and reached the
reservation. The police demanded his
return, but the young braves refused to
divulge his hiding place. Consequently
to morrow two large detachments Of
mounted police under Col. Herchmer will
proceed TO the reservation from here and
Fort Mcleod and effect DeerfOOt's cap
ture.
Another force has been detached from
Regina, as a reserve. With the present
excited state of feeling among the Indians
serious trouble is feared and the residents
of Calgary feel the most lively alarm
The Blackfeet are a most powerful tribe
in the Northwest and would be a terrible
foe if they went on the warpath. There
is also nc doubt but that if they break
out other tribes, notably the Crees, will
follow them on the warpath.
, 1887-09-07
~BREVITIEs.

The Chicago wheat market closed firm
yesterday. Cash, 69B, October 10 l-l6,
November 728.
DR.. Carver in a shooting exbIbit,on
yesterday at Dubuque broke 1000 glass
balls in forty. three minutes and twenty.
three and a half seconds.
The steamer Vera arrived at New
1ork Monday, and brought 1871, 900 in
German and English gold, and the Nor
mandie brought 81. 964,OOO in French
gold.
1t is reported that Ayoub Khan has
reached Kushak, where he will meet the
tatherly Sirdar of the Jamshedis, and
solicit the aid of his tribe to overrun
Afghanistan.
The supreme court of Illinois met at .
p. IN. yesterday. No announcement in
the anarchist case was made, nor will
there be until the judges have conferred
upon the opinions.
The residence of Cardinal Gibbons in
Baltimore was robbed on Sunday of two
valuable rings, one of which was a present
from Pope Leo. No clue to the thief
has been obtained.
The schedules in the assignment of
Henry 5. Ives & Go. have been filed.
They show the liabilities to be ST., $780,
600, nominal assets, 1915. 664, 600. Their
equity mounts to $400, 900.
The prince of Wales arrived az Hoel-
singer yesterday. He was received by
the Danish royal family and the car and
%czarina of Russia, and escorted to Frens.
burg by a guard of honor.
The proposed evictions on the Ponson-
by estates, Dublin, have been abandoned
under the provisions of the land act.
Twenty six of the Ponsonby tenants are
protected and cannot be evicted.
While a big gun was being cast at Shelf
field yesterday the gun exploded, killing
four men on the spot and i%niuring many
Others The buildings of the establish
ment were more or less shattered.
French newspapers all agree that the
moblllzlng experiment is a success. They
say that if France had been in such a
condition for war in 1870 as she is now
Germany would have found her match.
A general order has been issued by the
war department proclRiming by authority
OF the president a tract Of land within
the limits of the Uintah Indian reserva
ton. a military reservation for the post of
Fort Duchesne.
Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien have
signed a notice calling a convention of
delegates from all league branches in
Limerick county to meet ct Limerick for
the purpose of arranging a plan for rails
ing a fund in aid of evicted tenants and to
counteract the landlords efforts at ex-
termination.
The department of state has received
copies of a recent contract made etween
the Venezuelan government and Cuenca
Circus, of Venezuela. for the establishment
OF telegraphic communication between
Venzuela and the United States. The
project is expected to result in great bene-
fit to both countries.
, 1887-09-07
Discussing Tariff Reform.

WASHINGTON, Sept 6.--The RepuJ-
hcdn to morrow will say: The president,
ex- Speaker Randall and Speaker Carlisle
had a conference at Oakview this after
noon. The discussion related principally
to the tariff bill, which has practically re.
ceived the endorsement OF the administra-
ton, an outline of which contemplates the
abolition OF the tobacco and fruit brandy
tax, a reduction of customs duties and
large additions to the free list. This
measure has been referred to Secretary
Fairchild, No conclusion was reached,
but the matter was left for another con
ference to be held in the near future.
, 1887-09-07

CHICAGO, Sept. misunderstanding
5000; market steady; shipping steers
81. 65C@5 90; stockers and feeders. $I.5
@3.00; Texas cattle, 5 I.65(93. "a; Yves.
tern 81. 75(9345.
Sheep-Receipts 1000; market stronger;
natives, SO .OO(94. 50; Western So. I5G
$40; Texans 81. 7OCQ 3.95.
The Dr0UerS' Journal special cablegram
from London quotes the cattle market
fairly active, with supplies moderate and
prices higher. Good to choice American
steers HOP cents per pound estimated
dead weight.
, 1887-09-07

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-The following
telegram has been received at the war
department from Maj. General Terry:
Gen. Crook telegraphs from Rawlins,
Wyo., on the Bird inst, acknowledging
the receipt of a telegram from these head
quarters which conveyed to HIM the in
structlOns of the acting secretary of war
regarding the removal of unauthorized
persons on the Uintah and Ouray reser-
v%ations, etc. He reports the necessary
action taken, and says the Utes are all on
the reservation. Everything is quiet for
the present.
, 1887-09-07
Mrs. Cleveland Declines.

New York, Sept. Ga letter has
been received by the mayor and board of
alderman from Mrs. Cleveland, in which
she declines to make the presentation of
flags TO the fire department. She bases
her d%eclinati0n upon her unwillingness to
assume that she, as the wife of the presi-
dent, ought to participate so prominently
in a public ceremony in which the presi
dent took no part.
, 1887-09-07
The Watkins ReRatta.

WATKINS, N. Y, Sept. 6.--Trial heats
of the Watkins regatta were rowed on
Seneca lake this evening. The course,
which was three miles with a turn, was
rough at the lower end. In the first
heat Hamm beat Tenecke. Time, 2O:Os.
In the second Bubear beat Courtney and
McLafferty. Time, 2l:O3. In the third
Teemer beat Lee and Geary in the dark
ness. Time, 2O:5S. Teemer. Bubeal
and Hamm will row the final heat to nor
row.